What's for breakfast?

[BoyWonder]

Hi y''all. Arriving in less than two weeks, our party is very excited. I was just wondering what is eaten for breakfast in Turkey and if anybody had some recommendations for places to go in the morning in Kalkan?

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[Johnjen]

It really depends where u are staying.In the main though Hotel breakfast will be a buffet of delicious local bread,cheese,what looks like ham but isn''t quite,jam,olives,yoghurt,honey,possibly some cake & possibly some cereals.Tea or coffee & fresh orange juice(you usually haveto pay extra for this).You may also get boiled eggs or omellettes. 

[holidayfever]

Maybe fruit too and boiled eggs.Tomatoes, olives. You will be able to find most things to be honest.

[kalkan4eva]

Cafe Del Mar is lovely for breakfast...really nice coffee, juices and pastries but if you''re looking for something more substantial the Doy Doy do cooked breakfast as well as the traditional Turkish fayre. Also there''s a lovely pancake place on the Kalamar Road but we never had breakfast there, not sure if they''re open in time? I''m sure some other EK members will know.
But to be honest our best breakfasts where those mornings we had warm fresh bread, local cheese and fruit on the terace of our rented (unfortunately) apartment overlooking the gorgeous bay of Kalkan in the early morning sunshine....bliss. seven weeks to go... 

[BoyWonder]

We are staying at a villa so i think the idea of bread and lots of other bits and pieces looking out over kalkan will be lovely. just wondered if there were any traditional turkish dishes served up in the morning but it sounds like it is quite a relaxed affair, a little bit of what you fancy.

[kalkan4eva]

Hopefully you''re not too far from a supermarket, BoyWonder...the warm fresh bread is delicious and most have a deli counter for the cheeses. We took it in turns to do the early bread run, but it was worth it 

[Shirley Burley]

A traditional ''Turkish breakfast'' consists of white cheese, yellow cheese, boiled egg, olives, tomato, cucumber, honey, jam and fresh bread, accompanied by turkish tea.  If you ordered the Turkish breakfast in any cafe or restaurant this is what you would get.  However Turks also enjoy sucuk and eggs - thickly sliced salami fried with 2/3 eggs in a small pan and sprinkled with chilli flakes, or Menemen, which is like an omelette but with more tomato and peppers than egg.  Another alternative is Cilbir (said Chilber) - poached eggs in garlic yoghurt with chilli butter - not so commonly found but delicious.

[Hoca]

Kokoreç

[Shirley Burley]

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[alantj]

If like Shirley you dont fancy the fried intestines there is always the lorry drivers breakfast, available at one of the harbour restaurants.

Regards

Alan

[BoyWonder]

Thanks to Shirley for her informative reply and as for the kokorec, well you never know, i''ll try anything once. my mate whose coming with me likes his offal.

[Mrs B]

Our ''balcony'' breakfast usually consists of muesli, natural yoghurt and honey...lovely!
Then followed by fresh bread and rosehip preserve....then we might get around to moving around for the day!! 

[Hoca]

Menemen is a real nice Turkish breakfast eggs, tomatoes ,onion, peppers, salt, pepper, and pul biber flakes fried in olive oil and tossed like a loose omelette, eaten straight from the pan with bread and ayran

[Hoca]

Also nice yogurt honey and banana whizzed together with some crushed biscuits on top 

[MartynE]

If you are staying anywhere near the Nur Hotel you should also try getting some of the filled rolls from the Nur Patisserie (no relation to the hotel, actually, but just over the road!). They are lovely for breakfast - filled with white or yellow cheese, meat or potato, plain or covered in sesame seeds (I''m sure they have a Turkish name but i can''t for the life of me remember what it is)! Two for 1 YTL = bargain! 

[Brooksie]

Martyn
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